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> "Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act" Anyone outside the UK can share what this is about?

• jazzpush2 6mo ago
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  • jazzpush2 6mo ago
    To be clear, that's not the full article, just the intro (though the whole thing isn't too long)
• 0x3444ac53 6mo ago
  https://web.archive.org/web/20260413164025/https://aphyr.com/posts/417-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-safety https://web.archive.org/web/20260413164025/https://aphyr.com...
• sieabahlpark 6mo ago
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• satvikpendem 6mo ago
  Ironic.
• starik36 6mo ago
  What specifically is unsafe in this article?
  • onei 6mo ago
    It's not that the article is inherently unsafe, it's that the UK law imposes a liability the author is unwilling to shoulder.
    • cs02rm0 6mo ago
      Although Ofcom doesn't think geo blocking is sufficient to absolve them of that liability. Crazy as that is.
      • aphyr 6mo ago
        I actually wound up geoblocking the UK based on Ofcom's February 2025 presentation for small services providers--they said that they intended to target "one-man bands" who (e.g.) failed to perform a child risk assessment or age verification, but that a geoblock would be considered compliant. I don't like doing this, but as someone who visits the UK regularly (and has been regularly pushing Ofcom on this matter) I figure better safe than sorry. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1053842235?app_id=122963 https://player.vimeo.com/video/1053842235?app_id=122963
        • munksbeer 6mo ago
          I'm glad you have done this and I wish more would follow the same course. The more content that becomes unavailable in the UK, the more people might start to pay attention to the stupidity of the law. I doubt it, but even from an irrational anger perspective, I hate that these idiots can do idiotic (and worse, counter productive) stuff, and get no comeback on themselves.
          • Jtarii 6mo ago
            >I'm glad you have done this and I wish more would follow the same course. The more content that becomes unavailable in the UK, the more people might start to pay attention to the stupidity of the law. The law isn't going to be repealed because a bunch of nerds geoblocked their personal blog.
            • munksbeer 6mo ago
              That is a weirdly aggressive reply.
• tristramb 6mo ago
  Use the Tor browser